MacArthur Foundation Archives

Updated: Building on NPSA’s Recent Maneuver in the Methodological Battlespace

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Atiku Abubakar Foundation, Dangote, Elumelu Foundation, Interpretivism, MacArthur Foundation, Michel Foucault, NPSA, Postpositivism, Rationalism, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:

This is republished in strict obedience to the DIRECTIVE to make this more easily readable and more understandable by all. It was thought to be understandable by nearly all. Some senior read... Read more

Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2022In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), MacArthur Foundation, NANS, Panadol, Prof Attahiru Jega, WINNo CommentsViews:

This piece contends that there is a challenge of consolidation of the exceptionalism that can be argued for the designers, ideologues, activists, hand clappers and other minders or protagoni... Read more

All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ Against Corruption in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2020In: FlashbackTags: CISLAC, CPI, EFCC, MacArthur Foundation, Social media, TI, ‘Voices from below’No CommentsViews:

The 2019 global corruption perception index is out and, in the case of Nigeria, all the coalitions, propaganda, discourses, convictions and threats directed at corruption have not amounted t... Read more

Drop Death Penalty on Hate Speech and Face More Critical Issues Affecting Nigerians – CITAD Tells Senate

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: CITAD, Death Penalty, Hate Speech, MacArthur Foundation, Senator Bala Ibn Na'AllahNo CommentsViews:

The adventure of the Nigerian Senate to impose death penalty on Hate Speech has suffered a solidarity casualty from the leading anti-Hate Speech campaigner in Nigeria – the Centre for Inform... Read more

Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Mararaba, Jikwoyi and Gwagwalada

Posted By: adminon: October 06, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Cartesianism, False Consciousness, MacArthur Foundation, Marxism, The EnlightenmentNo CommentsViews:

Let this story begin from the beginning. Five years ago, the MacArthur Foundation, for example, came to a conclusion about corruption in Nigeria. Its own survey showed that corruption is at... Read more

June 2019 Diary of Nigeria’s Corruption Conundrum

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Afreximbank, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CITAD, EFCC, MacArthur Foundation, Moscow, Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, President Paul Kagame, Senator Danjuma Goje, Senator Rochas OkorochaNo CommentsViews:

In April 2019 when the programme of activities for the Quarter just ended in MacArthur Foundation supported and CITAD administered engagement with corruption was drawn up, the Diary of Niger... Read more

UCL, NUC, Top Professors & Activists in a 7 – Hour Contentious Conversation on Nigerian Universities (1)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2019In: FlashbackTags: ASUU, MacArthur Foundation, NESG, NUC, UCLNo CommentsViews:

The perceived virtual collapse of the university system in Nigeria was the subject of a 7-hour contentious conversation among key stakeholders in Abuja today. The assemblage happened to capt... Read more

Power and Probity in Nigeria After 2019 Elections

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2018In: NewsLogTags: Accountability, CITAD, CORRUPTION, INEC, MacArthur Foundation, Probity1 CommentViews:

Published below are the names of all contestants for The Presidency, the Senate and the Office of the Governor on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democr... Read more

There Must Be a Country Called Nigeria Before You Can be Called Nigerian Journalists – NUJ President’s Riot Act on Hate Speech

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: APCON, CITAD, MacArthur Foundation, NTA, NUJNo CommentsViews:

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), has read what appears to be a riot act on hate speech transmission to its members. NUJ President, Mr Waheed Odusile told an Abuja workshop on hate sp... Read more

MacArthur Foundation Arms Nigerian Anti-Corruption War with USD$9m

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2017In: SpectacleTags: ACJA, MacArthur Foundation, Oxfam, Professor Jennifer RubensteinNo CommentsViews:

In a move evocative of the controversy best captured by Jennifer Rubenstein’s “Why It is Beside the Point that No one Elected Oxfam”, MacArthur Foundation is spending a whopping sum of USD$9... Read more